Mary Todd Lincoln
First Lady: 1861 to 1865
Wife of President Abraham Lincoln
Born: December 13, 1818 Died: July 16, 1882
Mary Ann Todd (Molly), was born in Lexington, Kentucky,
the daughter of Robert Smith Todd, an important businessman and politician
and Eliza Ann Parker Todd.
Mary was well educated, attending schools with the best standards, first an academy, then a finishing school owned by a French woman, where the curriculum was concentrated on French and dancing. After school, she went for a long visit to see her sister, Lizzie, who lived in Springfield, Illinois. Lizzie, being married to a prominent lawyer, knew everybody of any consequence in the state capital. Molly met and fell in love with Abe Lincoln, to her sister's surprise, as Lincoln was poor, in debt, and not accustomed to the best society
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Eliza Parker Birth 1794 in Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky Death 06 Jul 1825 in Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois
Parents Robert Parker 1760 – 1800, and Elizabeth Rittenhouse Porter 1769 – 1850
JY NOTE This is not my line of Parkers - just passing on an interesting fact.
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